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A review by theogb451
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
5.0
I saw the Slow Horses TV show before I read this but still found myself gripped. The series is pretty much page-to-screen, barring slightly more action in the final section of the adaptation.
There's not a huge amount of deep stuff to say about this, it's good modern spy tale and Herron really has a way with dialogue that is snappy, but NOT archly full of quips, which grounds it.
It may have aged a little in terms of how nuts politics had drifted since it was written, or possibly one could argue that Peter Judd's assessment of the electorate's willingness to tolerate fascism is a little too on the nose. But otherwise a fun read all the way through.
EDIT: had to edit for missing an important 'NOT' up there in the 2nd paragraph. Good grief, one day I'll learn to properly proof read these before I slam them up to the ether.
There's not a huge amount of deep stuff to say about this, it's good modern spy tale and Herron really has a way with dialogue that is snappy, but NOT archly full of quips, which grounds it.
It may have aged a little in terms of how nuts politics had drifted since it was written, or possibly one could argue that Peter Judd's assessment of the electorate's willingness to tolerate fascism is a little too on the nose. But otherwise a fun read all the way through.
EDIT: had to edit for missing an important 'NOT' up there in the 2nd paragraph. Good grief, one day I'll learn to properly proof read these before I slam them up to the ether.